Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [art] better [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the lovers kissing , the lady with a book , the donkey , the antelope , the lion , the scorpion and the rest of the menagerie may need a better imagination or a more discerning eye . |
| 2 | ‘ It should deliver a better stream than it does . |
| 3 | The farming industry is passing through a period of profound change ; most farmers recognise that the industry must achieve a better balance with the market and the environment . |
| 4 | Although one is definitely much more ‘ mainstream ’ than the other , doing two should give a better idea of the scope of design ideas from this very interesting maker . |
| 5 | This more theoretical aspect should provide a better basis for urban designers and transport planners considering personal security issues . |
| 6 | We really must keep a better fire , or see if we can put in some central heating of some sort . ’ |
| 7 | And with such a high profile , he should set a better example . |
| 8 | The locals , in theory , should have a better time of it , the grapevine telling them where the ice is best . |
| 9 | We 're going to have to close , alas , because it 's been very interesting , and er er er a very diverse , ninety six people think animals should have a better deal , seventy seven think that the use of animals in research is justified at ti , from time to time , and well over seventy |
| 10 | A greater awareness of the possibilities for adults in both acquiring and learning should allow a better exploitation of their obvious motivation to achieve fluency in BSL . |
| 11 | CONSUMERS should get a better deal as the Courts and Legal Services Bill opens up greater competition , Mr David Tench , legal officer of the Consumers ' Association , said yesterday . |
| 12 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 13 | Two genuine half-wits do not make a genuine wit and two specialists do not make a generalist ; but two tools may do a better job than one multi-purpose tool . |
| 14 | Use of such a set of unnormalized operations may give a better indication of the accuracy of an arithmetic calculation . |
| 15 | We also need meaningful alternatives to measuring performance by averages , and the report argues that looking at centiles ( for example , the time within which 90% of patients were seen ) may give a better view of the situation . |
| 16 | Before we come to that ; however , it may give a better picture of the dynamics and movement of theology itself if we approach it more chronologically , and deal in turn with the two main impulses stemming from Germany and Switzerland which largely set the tone in the period from 1920 to 1960 — those associated above all with Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann — with trends outside Germany in that same period , and then with the movements which have received the widest attention in the last twenty years or so . |
| 17 | As a result I work harder , I 'm a better friend , a better father and perhaps one day I 'll make a better husband . |
| 18 | Someone sensitive and caring might make a better leader or salesperson than someone more competitive . |
| 19 | A plan is a very good way of addressing that but unless you can get a plan out in under five minutes , yeah , then it mi you might consider a better use of your time . |
| 20 | ‘ Certainly we 'll need a better ship than the kind I 've seen in Pantai and Losan . ’ |
| 21 | To propose that the separation of assessment from provision might provide a better incentive to create a needs-led service , than professional judgement , is to show a degree of confusion about the origins of our present predicament ( shortage of resource ; bureaucratization , etc. ) bordering on the incredible . |
| 22 | He certainly held deep convictions as to the absolute wrongness of the Liberal policies that he opposed , but at least a part of his apparent hostility was assumed for the occasion , a hard line that might secure a better compromise in the end . |
| 23 | I 'll have a better idea when I can see the background . |
| 24 | I 'll have a better stomach for it then . ’ |
| 25 | I felt they might have a better chance of getting to the capital if they were folded into paper aeroplanes and launched out of the door . |
| 26 | It might have a better chance of survival at home with me . |
| 27 | I reckon Crilly might have a better chance . ’ |
| 28 | Both the head and the DCSL freely acknowledged that these developments were undertaken in the light of knowledge that a library project existed , and that schools might stand a better chance of securing a grant if they could show evidence of commitment to enhanced library provision . |
| 29 | I thought you might stand a better chance of winning if there were n't enough votes . |
| 30 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |